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KATHRYN'S OAK, measuring 23 feet in girth and with a spread of 120 feet, lives in Pensacola, Florida. It is rumored that Andrew Jackson's Army camped there. |
Coleen Perilloux Landry, Chairman of the Live Oak Society, has furnished these wonderful photos for your viewing pleasure......
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There is nothing more beautiful than an ancient Live Oak........
Photo by Patrick M. Burke
| "OLD DICKORY" - Jefferson, Louisiana - Photo by Coleen Perilloux Landry ------ Because of a campaign spearheaded by the Live Oak Society, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development rerouted a highway to save this tree. The U. S. Corps of Engineers designed a new drainage system to save this tree and a private land developer donated the land that this tree lives on to save this tree. Never before has such cooperation come from so many to save one magnificent antique. |
Luling, Louisiana
Third vice-president of the LOS
Avery Island, Louisiana
Charter member of the LOS
First President of the LOS (1934-1968)
Deceased from chemical pollution
Copyright by Guy Sternberg.
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On the Left MIDDLETON
OAK |
The Abbot Paul Schaueble Oak - St. Joseph's Abbey, St. Benedict, LA - copyright photo of Guy Sternberg.
According to Br. Gabriel Rivet, on November 13, 1957, at midnight a powerful storm went through St. Joseph's Abbey in Covington, blowing out many of the windows in the church and strewing the pipes in the massive pipe organ into the walls like daggers. The mid section of the Abbot Paul Oak was wiped out and a sizable split incurred. Fr. John LeBlanc, one of the Benedictine monks, refused to cut the tree. Instead he secured it with bolts and heavy braces and it still thrives today, depicting the true spirit of resiliency of the live oak.
RANDALL
OAK, LOS charter member, 1934.
Currently measures 35 feet in girth. Louisiana.
James Ryder Randall, a native of Baltimore, was an English literature professor at Poydras College near New Roads, Louisiana in the early 1860's. After reading a newspaper report of a Civil War battle between citizens of Baltimore and the Massachusetts infantry in which some of his friends were killed, he became upset and could not sleep. Legend says that he sat beneath this live oak at midnight and, while meditating upon the tragedy, wrote the poem "Maryland, My Maryland." The poem was later put to music and is the state song of Maryland.
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MARTHA WASHINGTON OAK, AUDUBON PARK, NEW ORLEANS, LA., fourth vice-president of the Live Oak Society. Living within the confines of the Rhinoceros Yard at Audubon Zoo, the oak is valiantly surviving and creates a wonderful presence there. |
Photo by Patrick M. Burke
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Photo by Patrick M. Burke
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THE
MONSIGNOR JEAN EYRAUD OAK-Reserve, LA.
Located on a ditch bank at the far
end of St. Peter's Cemetery, this oak measures 25 feet. It is named in honor of
a French-born priest who was nominated a candidate for sainthood by the Archdiocese
of New Orleans in 2001. Msgr. Eyraud served as a much beloved pastor of St. Peter's
Church in Reserve for almost 50 years.
"MARYLAND
FARMS OAK" - # 3653 - St. Gabriel Louisiana - girth 25' 6", spread 127'.
Owned by the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, a maximum security prison located
several miles west of the cemetery, the area surrounding the tree has become the
resting place for inmates since 2001. In this serene setting, sheltered by the
spreading oak, may they rest in peace.
Copyright photo by John S. Perilloux